News Thats Used

Friday October 3, 2003

An Indian who was officially dead for 18 years and the scientists who invented Murphy's law were among the winners of the IgNobel Awards.

The awards are a spoof on the Nobel Prizes, celebrated annually in Boston to honor achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced." They are presented by science humor magazine 'Annals of Improbable Research' and several groups at Harvard and Radcliffe ...

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Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Quips

Don't let worry kill you. Let the Church help.

Filed Under: Church Notices

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

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Thursday night is Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

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Fun Book Titles

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

Peek-a-Boo!
- by I. C. Hugh

School Meals
- by R. E. Volting

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

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Good Question

You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

Does killing time damage eternity?

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo?

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World Firsts

John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

Tuesday February 8, 1898

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Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected President.

Thursday February 7, 1991

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Joe DiMaggio becomes the 1st $100,000 a year baseball player. He plays for the New York Yankees.

Monday February 7, 1949

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Events

Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.

They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".

Thursday February 23, 2017

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The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.

According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.

Monday September 4, 2006

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A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.

Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.

Saturday February 18, 2017

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